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us finance 5 1h ago 4 min read

Gold Slips, Silver Drops 3% as Hawkish Fed Comments Hit Metals Ahead of Trump-Xi Summit

Since Xi Jinping's arrival Wednesday for his third Trump summit in a year, precious metals took a hit from hawkish Fed comments and a firmer dollar, with silver falling as much as 3% and gold slipping under $4,310 an ounce in spot trading. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and USTR Jamieson Greer say China talks are making progress, but the trade truce extension and rare earth disputes remain unresolved with a November 10 deadline looming.

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dk finance 6 3h ago 5 min read

AI Agents Start Paying Your Bills in Denmark While a DeepMind Alum Warns of Extinction Risk and DARPA Finally Gets Hands-On With Microsoft's Quantum Chip

This week showed AI moving faster than anyone's ability to verify it: Danske Bank let an AI agent book and pay for a coffee tasting on its own, a former Google DeepMind researcher quit warning the technology could kill everyone, and DARPA finally got direct, unsupervised access to test whether Microsoft's disputed quantum chip is real. Three different stories, one common thread: companies are asking the public to trust claims that outside verification still hasn't settled.

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us finance 7 5h ago 4 min read

Five-Year Treasury Yield Tops 5% for First Time Since 2007 as Weak Auction and Hot Growth Data Rattle Bonds

The bond selloff that already pushed the 10-year Treasury yield above 5% just spread to the five-year note, which hit 5.03% on Wednesday after a weak $70 billion auction and stronger-than-expected September PMI data. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's buyback program hasn't stopped the bleeding, and Congress is now fighting over whether his own tariffs are the reason inflation won't quit.

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us finance 9 6h ago 4 min read

10-Year Treasury Yield Breaks Above 5% for First Time Since 2007 on Hot Growth Data and Oil Spike

The 10-year Treasury yield pushed past 5% Wednesday, a level unseen since 2007, as blowout PMI data and hawkish comments from Fed Governor Michael Barr sent odds of an October rate hike to 73%. Oil jumped on a Strait of Hormuz incident and Trump's diesel-export-ban talk, and the Treasury Department kept a $6 billion buyback ceiling despite the surge, signaling no appetite to fight the bond market.

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us finance 7 6h ago 4 min read

NYSE and Blockchain.com Sign Deal to Put Tokenized U.S. Stocks in Front of 44 Million Crypto Accounts

Six days after the SEC cleared a five-year exemption for tokenized securities, NYSE Group and Blockchain.com signed a memorandum of understanding to route tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs to Blockchain.com's global user base. Nothing trades yet, the deal still needs regulatory sign-off, but ICE shares jumped and Wall Street is racing to build 24/7 stock trading on the blockchain.

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dk finance 6 9h ago 5 min read

Novo Nordisk CEO Open to Direct NYSE Listing as Stock Sits Roughly 70% Below Its 2023 Peak

Novo Nordisk CEO Mike Doustdar told the Financial Times he'd consider ditching the company's American depositary receipts for a direct New York Stock Exchange listing, as the Danish drugmaker fights to keep pace with Eli Lilly in the weight-loss market. The move comes alongside vision-loss lawsuits over Ozempic and Wegovy, a new Trump administration Medicaid drug-pricing deal Novo has joined, and a widening AI partnership with Anthropic that's drawing its own scrutiny.

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us finance 6 9h ago 4 min read

Netflix Gets Its Second Wall Street Downgrade in a Week as YouTube Eats Into TV Viewing Share

HSBC cut Netflix to Hold on Tuesday, September 22, days after Wells Fargo slapped a sell-equivalent rating on the stock, both pointing to YouTube's growing living-room dominance. Netflix shares are down 23% this year while the S&P 500 is up nearly 14%. The bears say Netflix's original content has gone stale; the stock's own history of surprise hits is the strongest case the bears could be wrong.

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us finance 7 10h ago 4 min read

Wall Street Earnings Outlook Turns Negative for First Time in 23 Weeks, Citigroup Data Shows

Analyst downgrades of US corporate earnings outpaced upgrades for the first time since April, according to Citigroup, ending the longest streak of positive revisions since 2021. The shift follows the Fed's first rate hike since 2023 and comes as Morgan Stanley's Michael Wilson warns the S&P 500 could fall up to 7% if inflation forces more tightening.

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us finance 8 10h ago 4 min read

OECD Raises 2026 Global Growth Forecast to 2.9%, Warns 30-Year Bond Yields Are at 15-Year Highs in Six G7 Nations

The OECD's September 23 Interim Economic Outlook nudged global growth up to 2.9% for 2026, crediting AI investment for cushioning the Middle East energy shock, while flagging that 30-year government bond yields are at their highest levels in 15-plus years across most of the G7. IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva says debt is climbing 'like a staircase,' but economists cited by Breitbart argue the yield spike is mostly about Fed rate-path expectations, not fiscal panic. Both things can be true, and the sources disagree on which matters more.

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gb finance 6 11h ago 3 min read

Airtel Money Cuts London IPO Target Nearly in Half to $800 Million, Targets October Listing

Airtel Money, the mobile payments arm of Sunil Mittal's Airtel Africa, has trimmed its London IPO ambitions to roughly $800 million and an $8-9 billion valuation, down from the $1.5-2 billion raise and $10 billion valuation floated back in April. Airtel Africa's stock dropped as much as 10% on the news, a real market verdict that cuts against the celebratory press-release framing of this as a slam-dunk win for London.

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ir finance 8 16h ago 4 min read

Iranian Flights to Baghdad, Muscat and Azerbaijan Grounded as US Aviation Sanctions Take Hold

Seven months into the US-Israel war on Iran, Washington's threat to cut off fuel, landing services and ticket sales for any airport that handles Iranian carriers took effect Wednesday, September 23. Iran canceled its own Baghdad and Muscat routes, Iraq and Azerbaijan moved to block Iranian flights, and China and Russia refused to go along.

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us finance 7 17h ago 4 min read

Private Equity's 'Zombie Fund' Pileup Hits a Record $349 Billion, as Buyout Firms Hold Assets for 15 Years Instead of 10

A week after Apollo locked investors out of its $26 billion credit fund for a third straight quarter, new data show the private equity industry has a record $349 billion parked in funds that have blown past their 10-year lifespans with no exit in sight. Swiss dealmakers report buyout firms are dropping out of half their bidding contests, and the median PE fund now runs 15 years instead of 10, meaning the money pension funds and endowments committed isn't coming back on schedule.

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us finance 8 19h ago 4 min read

10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 5% as Foreign Buyers Pull Back From Two-Year and 20-Year Auctions

Since the Federal Reserve's September 15-16 rate hike to 3.75%-4.00%, its first increase since 2023, Treasury yields have kept climbing, with the 10-year touching 5% on Monday and this week's note auctions showing foreign demand thinning out. Washington is paying more to borrow than it has in years, and that bill lands on every American with a mortgage, car loan, or credit card.

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us finance 7 20h ago 4 min read

Bank, Insurer, and Travel Stocks Tumble as Meta's Muse AI Agent Tops App Store Charts

A day after Amazon blocked Meta's Muse assistant from shopping on Amazon.com, financial and consumer-service stocks posted their worst one-day drop in months on fears that AI agents will erode businesses built on customer habit and hassle. Charles Schwab fell 6.1%, JPMorgan dropped 3.3%, and Planet Fitness lost 11%, though a flattening yield curve and stalled IPOs were also weighing on the sector the same day.

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us finance 6 20h ago 3 min read

FTC Court Order Quadruples Amazon Prime Refund Cap to $200, Adds Millions More Eligible Consumers

A federal court has approved a revised FTC order accelerating and expanding refunds under Amazon's $2.5 billion Prime settlement, raising the maximum payout from $51 to $200 and making future payments automatic with no claim forms required. Amazon still denies wrongdoing, but the company has already paid out $845 million and millions more consumers become eligible starting October 1, 2026.

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us finance 7 21h ago 3 min read

Apollo Locks Investors Out of $26 Billion Credit Fund for a Third Straight Quarter

Apollo Global Management capped withdrawals from its flagship Apollo Debt Solutions BDC again this quarter, the third cap in a row, even as redemption requests eased slightly to 14.7% from 16.8%. Investors who want out are still getting a fraction of their money back, and Apollo isn't the only firm doing it. This is what happens when Wall Street sells retail investors on private credit funds that promise liquidity they can't actually deliver on demand.

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in finance 3 21h ago 4 min read

Angel One Founder Dinesh Thakkar Buys Entire Mumbai Tower for Rs 711 Crore, Embassy Developments Shares Jump 8.3%

Angel One chairman Dinesh Thakkar has agreed to buy a full luxury tower in Mumbai's Juhu for roughly Rs 711 crore ($74.3 million), which Embassy Developments is calling India's largest single residential unit deal. The claim comes with an asterisk, and the story behind it is a 12th-pass stockbroker who built one of India's biggest trading platforms from a walkie-talkie and borrowed cash.

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us finance 6 22h ago 4 min read

CFTC Tells Prediction Markets to Rein In Bets on What Public Figures Say

The CFTC's Division of Market Oversight issued a staff advisory warning that 'mention market' bets, wagers on whether someone like Trump or Jerome Powell will say a specific word, are presumptively easy to manipulate. It's guidance, not a rule, but it puts Kalshi and Polymarket on notice after a White House staffer already got caught gaming the system.

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us finance 7 22h ago 4 min read

Trump Bought SpaceX Shares in July, Sold Them a Week Later as Price Fell 15%, Disclosure Shows

A financial disclosure signed September 8 and posted by the Office of Government Ethics on September 22 shows Trump bought up to $50,000 in SpaceX stock on July 10 and sold up to $15,000 on July 17, while the company he's investing in holds federal contracts his own administration oversees. The White House says outside managers run the trades on autopilot. No investigation has been announced, but the arrangement is exactly the kind of blind-spot past presidents avoided by using blind trusts.

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us finance 6 23h ago 4 min read

Cities Pile Into $63 Billion of Climate-Defense Bonds as Washington Weighs Shrinking FEMA's Role

State and local governments have roughly $63 billion in municipal bonds in the pipeline to harden roads, sewers and flood barriers against climate disasters, according to Nuveen's Dan Close. The push comes as federal proposals could shift more disaster costs onto states, and some of these tax-free bonds are already paying taxable-equivalent yields near 10% for high-income investors.

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